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You know that finger-stretch of putting the lower-hand ring finger on Hole 6 way down there? And how much more comfortable it is ... my pinkie on the bottom hole since like 1998. You don't know how many times people have told me that I'll never learn how to play good that way. :P

... Irish Low D whistle. You know that finger-stretch of putting the lower-hand ring finger on Hole 6 way down there? And how much more comfortable ... the lower-hand little finger to cover Hole 6 instead? If you do that your lower-hand ring finger is sitting just where a hole for F natural could ...

... in to say this is what Carbony does with their low D whistles. And it's also exactly the approach I think could be used to make a G sharp left-hand thumb hole for a high D whistle that was convenient to cover. This (combined with an F natural and D sharp hole, as previously discussed) would ...

... also exactly the approach I think could be used to make a G sharp left-hand thumb hole for a high D whistle that was convenient to cover. This (combined ... though, it's a neater solution anyway because you wouldn't need to lift your thumb off the instrument but could simply roll or rock it slightly ...

... thumb-hole you can see the end of the mormorka coming fairly close to your thumb, when the thumb is closing the thumb-hole. Well described - thanks. ... also exactly the approach I think could be used to make a G sharp left-hand thumb hole for a high D whistle that was convenient to cover. This ...

... came up with this hundreds, perhaps a thousand, years ago. The upper-hand index finger's hole isn't a normal note-hole like the others, but has ... thumb-hole you can see the end of the mormorka coming fairly close to your thumb, when the thumb is closing the thumb-hole. Anyhow on a Bulgarian ...

... chanter has what on the Bulgarian bagpipes is called the mormorka (I don't know the Hungarian name for it) which is operated by the upper-hand index finger. On Bulgarian gaidi opening this hole raises the pitch of any note below it by a semitone; in other words it transforms a diatonic ...

... chanter has what on the Bulgarian bagpipes is called the mormorka (I don't know the Hungarian name for it) which is operated by the upper-hand index finger. On Bulgarian gaidi opening this hole raises the pitch of any note below it by a semitone; in other words it transforms a diatonic ...

... used to pedaling properly while playing the piano. Third, I do think your idea of having it for just a few notes would be interesting, but I think ... harmonize at all, you have to harmonize incessantly. If you switch your hand position to allow for harmonization, the drone will be constantly going, ...

... having the same six fingerholes as an Irish whistle plus a thumbhole for the upper thumb. The other bore only has one hole, operated by the lower-hand little finger. This bore only is capable of two notes, generally tuned to the root and the 5th of the chanter's key. While the simple Oom-Pah accompaniment ...

Eamonn Cotter showed me a left hand support he was using and I copied . It is made of rapid hardening denture putty. You mix up a large lump of it, put it in the saddle between your thumb and 1st finger, molding it to support the flute. I can email you a pic if you post your email address

I was wondering if people could chime in regarding the possibility of making something ... so you'd play with both windway ends in your mouth, or they'd share a single windway that ... play the 6-hole whistle normally (your left hand would just have to stretch over the slide whistle ...

Heh heh, I remember years back coming to a conclusion like that. At ... section of the wire, marking it, sawing it off by hand, dressing the ends with a file and then sandpaper, ... work with the metal again, I'd take a leaf out of your book and try to come up with and approach that wasn't ...

When I did metal rings, I had to make seven of them in various sizes for a single flute, and it dawned ... out the desired length of the section of the wire, marking it, sawing it off by hand, dressing the ends with a file and then sandpaper, bending it into a ring, soldering ...

... This is a large-holed, Patent head flute with nicholson type right hand section - eased finger holes and up-turned long F. All metal pieces ... putty and get the flute playing at A440 with about 15mm of extension. Your embouchure might vary.